Pros and Cons of the INTERNET?

• password

  

  I am sure that everyone has a couple of things they like about the INTERNET, such as porn, chat sites, social media sites, sports and business information. What do you think the downfalls of the INTERNET are, such as cheating by spouses, scam artist, bad parenting and laziness.
  
  What are your opinions on the Internet, good or bad?
• I Wear Pants

  All of the cons you listed existed before the internet.
• password

  

  You are correct, do you think the internet has made it easier to accomplish them?
  
  
  Those were just a couple of pros and cons listed, I am sure there are many more people could list.
• Curly J

  

  I heart teh Interwebs. Over all it's a good thing. It just depends on how you use it. You have to be somewhat smart in order to realize what is real and the like. Cheating Spouses happened way before the Internet, the same with scams and bad parenting.
  
  I wish I had it back when I was in HS. No more ventures to the library for research. Hell a computer back then would have been nice too. No more liquid ink, and waiting for it to dry when using a typewriter, for your freakin' book report papers/essay papers. (double spaced)
• I Wear Pants

  password;807183 wrote:You are correct, do you think the internet has made it easier to accomplish them?
  
  
  Those were just a couple of pros and cons listed, I am sure there are many more people could list.

  Not really, I mean, it's simplified some aspects of those things but cheating, scaming, bad parenting, and laziness have all been around and easy as long as there have been people dumb enough to be fooled and people mal-intented enough to want to steal/cheat/etc.
• Curly J

  

  I Wear Pants;807188 wrote:Not really, I mean, it's simplified some aspects of those things but cheating, scaming, bad parenting, and laziness have all been around and easy as long as there have been people dumb enough to be fooled and people mal-intented enough to want to steal/cheat/etc.

  Hims is Really Smart...Maybe even smarter than Justin...just want to say Ditto on that quote.
• Tobias Fünke

  

  Pros: porn
  
  Cons: .....porn
  
  
• password

  

  I think it has made it easier for people to cheat, scam and be lazy. People don't even have to leave the house now to try and meet someone to start an affair, they use craigslist or some other social site and go straight to a hotel without meeting before they hookup. People are so addicted to games that they very rarely leave their home and don't know what is happening with their own kids because they have become so lazy. The INTERNET has produced many millionaires if you think about it, Many of us would have never known about our long lost relative that lived in Nigeria passing away and making us the sole beneficiary to his millions of dollars that he had wanted to give us if we can supply our bank account information and maybe a small processing fee so it can be deposited
• I Wear Pants

  You are clearly old.
• Curly J

  

  Tobias Fünke;807203 wrote:Pros: porn
  
  Cons: .....porn
  
  

  Winner !!!
• password

  

  I Wear Pants;807209 wrote:You are clearly old.

  
  Because I believe that the Internet makes it easier to be dysfunctional?
  
  There is a lot of good that has to be credited with the Internet but I believe it has its downside also.
• queencitybuckeye

  Never has there been more ways to communicate yet less real communication.
• power i

  

  Pros: shopping
  
  Cons: Kids who don't realize once you put something out there, it's there forever and ever.
• Con_Alma

  queencitybuckeye;807233 wrote:Never has there been more ways to communicate yet less real communication.

  
  
  It's changing the social skills, or lack thereof, of an entire generation.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  Everything in moderation. Some people don't know when to stop.
  
  Same holds true for the Internet.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Bad parenting?
• justincredible

  

  Pros: 100% of my income is because of the internet
  Cons: my income isn't higher
• O-Trap

  

  password;807183 wrote:You are correct, do you think the internet has made it easier to accomplish them?

  Nah. Just combined them.
  
  For example, now a scammer can be lazy.
  

  I Wear Pants;807188 wrote:Not really, I mean, it's simplified some aspects of those things but cheating, scaming, bad parenting, and laziness have all been around and easy as long as there have been people dumb enough to be fooled and people mal-intented enough to want to steal/cheat/etc.

  As PT Barnum said ...
  

  Con_Alma;807250 wrote:It's changing the social skills, or lack thereof, of an entire generation.

  It genuinely isn't causing a lack, but I agree that it is changing what they are.
  
  The feeling of a lack of social skills can pretty easily be seen as based on the assumption that social skills are defined by prior generational norms, but social skills are defined by culture, and as culture changes, the behaviors we call "social skills" change along with it, such that in today's culture, a person who grew up in the 1970s would be considered socially inept for not being able to interact with people under the current social infrastructure.
  

  justincredible;807295 wrote:Pros: 100% of my income is because of the internet
  Cons: my income isn't higher

  We'll need to work on that, then. LOL
• I Wear Pants

  Yeah the "people don't know how to talk on the phone argument" while still somewhat relevant isn't nearly as damning an accusation as it used to be. What with email, video conferencing, texting, etc all available pretty much everywhere having excellent phone skills isn't nearly as essential a trait. Still helpful but not essential.
  
  I could say the same thing about a guy in his 50s who doesn't write emails very well and still has an @aol.com email.
  
  The internet is a great tool but like any tool can be used incorrectly to cause harm (see cars, planes, guns, knives, etc).
• Sonofanump

  I now have Myopia due to looking at a computer screen all day.
• Heretic

  

  PROS: Most everything. By turning on my computer and sitting down, I can access virtually any information I need and purchase most items I'd want.
  
  CONS: Human nature. Nothing wrong with the Internet, itself. But people will use it to send out scam emails, set up pedophilic relationships and many other less-than-desirable things just because it's so damn easy if you have the know-how. You know...things like those hackers getting PSN taken down for a while or people who create viruses to fuck up other peoples' enjoyment of the web.
• O-Trap

  

  Cons: Trolls.
  
  Pros: Everything else.
• Con_Alma

  O-Trap;807692 wrote:...
  It genuinely isn't causing a lack, but I agree that it is changing what they are.
  
  ...

  I'll rephrase for clarity.
  
  It's having an impact on the social skills that existed and on the ones that maybe did not exist before the internet.
• Jughead

  

  Tobias Fünke;807203 wrote:Pros: porn
  
  Cons: .....porn
  
  

  
  I was thinking the exact same thing. Spot on Tobias!
• dwccrew

  

  Tobias Fünke;807203 wrote:Pros: porn
  
  Cons: gay porn
  
  

  
  FIFY